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some people just don't have a good memory for acronyms. It's one thing to learn the concept of a privilege escalation, but an entirely different thing to play mental memory with TL…

Understanding a term with the help of context is very different from guessing what the letters of an acronym might mean. The latter is more like a crosswords puzzle, and a totally …

> Why isn't it the job of the distros to keep up on upstream security disclosures? They can't, because (responsible) security disclosures are private, _not public_. That's the whol…

> considered classics Great games, but all you listed are barely 3 years old – can something that young already be considered a "classic"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagull_management : come in, make a lot of noise, shit everywhere, leave

The headstone ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gau%C3%9F#/medi... ) does not (it does feature the star of David, but I couldn't find any notion that Gauß was jewish).…

For 17, Gauss noticed that cos(360°/17) can be written only with elementary operations, see https://www.heise.de/imgs/18/2/1/2/3/3/6/4/siebzehneck-b95b5... Later he proved that all…

I believe if things get too heated, all the parties involved should be forced to meet in person for a weekend to talk things out. I'm sure it would solve like 90% of these stupid c…

You did have any opportunity to rewrite your sentence to use any other word than f**, one that did not require self-censoring. Yet you did not. Why?

I don't have a factual answer for you (be interested in one, too), only a cheek-in-tongue one: It's like politics, the only thing you have to do to get elected is to get people to …

wow, you made hackernews turn into tumblr. Well done, great explanation.

Maybe. That drugstore chain mainly sells hygiene products. Their "main" side-business is printing photos, both digital and on film. (Yes, even in 2024 in Germany it's still possibl…

why over 8k??? The linked [dmca notice]( https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2024/04/2024-04-2... ) lists exactly 12 repos, not 8000. Where did they get this info from? edit…

That doesn't matter, in most jurisdictions stealing trash is still stealing. If I'm disposing chemical waste in your backyard, do you automatically become the owner?

Yes, for big parts where they know it will come down to the surface they try to aim for water, like they do with all the rocket boosters etc. However that's still risky, so given t…

But are you allowed to sell it? I'd think it still belongs to NASA. If an airplane flies over your house and drops an engine into your back yard, you can't just auction it off but …

I was given [1,2] in the second run. Even easier to see it's impossible.

that was the whole reason this was caught this early, because Andres Freund was runnig Debian Testing (or Unstable)

One of the problems with the "money solution" in this case is that xz is a very small, relatively stable software. Sure things like the linux kernel, firefox, gnome or openssh coul…

You do realize that "that shit" was part of the obfuscated and xz-compressed backdoor hidden as binary test file, right? It was never committed in plain sight. You can go to https:…

the bad actor was a co-maintainer of the repo (and even more active than the original maintainer for quite some time) with full commit rights. This was strait committed to master, …

No. From what I've read on the openwall and lkml mailing lists (so generally people who know a lot more about these things than I do), nobody accused Lasse Collins, the original ma…

I don't think we know what exactly this does, yet. I can only answer one of those questions, as far as I understand the "unreplayable" part is refering to this: > Apparently the ba…

Even on the screenshots on instagram in this very post the word "sexual" is censored. It's ridiculous.

This has nothing to do with AI, the anecdote is from 2018.